When we read about the tools that are needed to be successful, one of them is that they say that you have to be persistent. Persistence is sticking with something, never giving up even in the face of tough challenges. Go ahead with a dream. Don't be discouraged no matter what.
When reading the life stories of some successful people, they often tell about everything they had to go through to get to where they are. The difficulties they had to overcome to continue in what they had proposed. They felt discouraged at certain times, especially when they were close to failure or people did not take them seriously because of the type of dream they wanted to achieve.
They then explain that one of the reasons they are famous today is because they were persistent. They pursued their dream regardless of what they had to experience.
If at this moment you feel that you are discouraged because you are behind a goal that is not achieved, continue doing it because persistence is the key to success.
Everybody says to be persistent. But being persistent for the simple fact of being persistent is a big mistake. Persistence can lead to failure if the right path is not chosen.
There are many people who have this attitude of persistence, we can see them in street demonstrations that fight for their rights or participate in organizations that seek the common good, it does not prevent them from expressing themselves or the adversity of the climate, the negative or criticism of others people, the injustice or mistreatment that they sometimes suffer from fighting every day. They maintain their postures over time, no matter how long it will take them to achieve what they want as their goal.
These types of people can teach us a lot about the real value of persistence and maintaining a posture of perseverance in life. But they don't always succeed in what they set out to do.
When it comes to success, persistence is said to be a very important quality, but something that is very important is often overlooked.
When successful people say they got where they are because they were already persistent, they are not really telling a part of their stories. It is essential to know it.
What they are not counting is that they forgot to say that before being persistent, they had a "goal", and to achieve it, they had devised a "strategy" to get there.
Along the way, after they took each step, before taking the next they evaluated the results to see if they were what they wanted. If they didn't get what they wanted, then they changed the measures taken and tried something different, until they found the method that would bring them closer to their goal.
These people were persistent, but they weren't any more persistent from holding on to their vision. Their persistence was not about the method they used to reach their goal. Along the way they had to go, they were flexible and experimented to see what was the best technique or strategy to get where they wanted to go.
Now, why do these people when they tell their stories forget to tell this important detail? Why don't they say that if a strategy didn't work for them, they would abandon it and use a new one?
I think these people are not doing it deliberately. They tend to stop mentioning it, because they assume that it is obvious that another strategy should be tried. They assume that everyone already knows that they must test what they are doing at each step to see if it is working or not. And if it doesn't work, the method should be changed. They keep trying new approaches until they get a plan that really works and has the result they want.
An example of a persistent person is the case of Thomas Edison, when he tried to create the light bulb, he had to try about ten thousand times until he succeeded. He was a persistent person in believing in his goal and the way he tried to achieve it. He did not always repeat the same experiment to create it. They were all different, every time I tried something new and didn't get the result I wanted, I would evaluate the method, and then try something different, keeping track of the methods and the results I got from each test.
You always have to remember this big difference between being a persistent person with being persistent in the goal. You can be persistent for years and not achieve your goals. It is important to cling to dreams, but not to the methods to reach them, every so often you have to review the actions and the strategy plan that is applied, so that if it is not the right one, take another course.
